(Found) African postapocalyptic civilization african female protagonist young adult

[DavidSilverSpring]

The book would've been published in the late 60s through the mid 70s. The protagonist is a young African girl living in an African civilization (kingdom?) after the West has perished in an atomic war. I think the novel ends with contact being made with someone from the West.

 

[monkeypooper]

Trencherman by Eben Venter is what I found on a Google search all the white population pulls out after a nuclear meltdown at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station

 

[DavidSilverSpring]

Thanks for checking, but this isn't it. The book I'm thinking of was published at least 45 years ago. It was set in West Africa, not South Africa ...

 

[DavidSilverSpring]

Solved! Enough thinking about it dredged the information up from the depths of my mind. It's Day of the Drones by A.M. Lightner (Bantam Books, 1970). I may have misremembered a few plot details but think I got it mostly right.